Fellows’ Journal Club This study included 520 consecutive patients with a clinical diagnosis of acute ischemic stroke (49.4% men; mean age, 72 years) who underwent CTA to evaluate large-vessel occlusion of the proximal anterior circulation. CTA scans were retrospectively reviewed
Editor’s Choice The authors compared vessel wall enhancement after intra-arterial thrombosuction with that in patients not treated by thrombosuction in a group of 49subjects with ischemic stroke with 7T MR imaging within 3 months after symptom onset. In the intra-arterial
1.Yue, Q., Yu, Y., Shi, Z., Wang, Y., Zhu, W., Du, Z., … Mao, Y. (2018). Prediction of BRAF mutation status of craniopharyngioma using magnetic resonance imaging features. Journal of Neurosurgery, 129(1), 27–34. https://doi.org/10.3171/2017.4.JNS163113 Classically, craniopharyngiomas are divided into 2
Fellows’ Journal Club Prospectively managed stroke data bases from 2 separate centers were retrospectively studied between 2009 and 2014 for records of tandem occlusions related to internal carotid dissection. The first step in the revascularization procedure was intracranial thrombectomy. Then,
Fellows’ Journal Club All patients from the Multicenter Randomized Clinical Trial of Endovascular Treatment for Acute Ischemic Stroke in the Netherlands (MR CLEAN) with an apparent ICA occlusion on CTA and available DSA images were included. Two independent observers classified
Editor’s Choice Eighty-five consecutive patients who underwent brain dual-energy CT immediately after mechanical thrombectomy for acute ischemic stroke between August 2013 and January 2017 were included. Two radiologists independently evaluated dual-energy CT images for the presence of parenchymal hyperdensity, iodine
Fellows’ Journal Club The authors evaluated 1073 patients with anterior circulation stroke undergoing mechanical thrombectomy between 2010 and 2016. Patients with wake-up stroke and daytime-unwitnessed stroke were compared with controls receiving mechanical thrombectomy as the standard of care. There was
Valdueza JM, Schreiber SJ, Roehl J-E, Connolly F, Klingebiel R. Neurosonology and Neuroimaging of Stroke: A Comprehensive Reference. 2nd ed. Thieme; 2017; 768 pp; 1305 ill; $224.99 Neurosonology and Neuroimaging of Stroke, written by 4 neurologists and 1 neuroradiologist, is an
Fellows’ Journal Club The authors investigated the impact of early extubation and ventilation duration in a cohort of 103 patients that underwent thrombectomy under general anesthesia. Prolonged ventilation was associated with pneumonia during hospitalization and unfavorable functional outcome (mRS greater
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